Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 258 292
Rank change year-on-year -40 +34 -82
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 489 512 823
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.17% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.25% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 202 309 484
10th Percentile £43,063 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,362 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,373 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +2.77% -6.90%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £126,125 £97,061 £112,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -5.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57,986 41,016 73,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.95% 93.54% 87.33%
Number of salaries quoted 35,213 22,402 55,977
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £44,967 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,997 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -26 442 £75,000 +8.11% 145
London +49 252 £92,500 +23.33% 74
Work from Home +50 209 £75,000 +15.38% 63
UK excluding London -89 186 £63,076 -2.96% 93
North of England -43 53 £76,250 - 20
South East -53 45 £58,750 -9.62% 33
Midlands -43 35 £63,076 -2.96% 14
North West -8 33 £82,500 +6.45% 13
West Midlands -8 26 £60,288 -7.25% 8
East of England +16 21 £60,100 -12.58% 11
South West -50 19 £62,500 - 10
Yorkshire -34 18 £68,510 +110.80% 5
Northern Ireland -20 11 £75,000 +26.20% 1
East Midlands -52 9 £80,000 +33.33% 6
Wales -7 4 £61,001 +2.64% 3
Scotland -27 4 £55,000 +5.33% 6
North East -17 2 £63,076 -23.54% 2

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.48%) Confluence
2 12 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.61%) CMS
5 2 (0.41%) CICS
5 2 (0.41%) MTS
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 19 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.61%) Trello
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (2.45%) Payment Gateway
2 10 (2.04%) Workfront
3 5 (1.02%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.61%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
5 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 62 (12.68%) SaaS
2 58 (11.86%) AWS
3 49 (10.02%) Azure
4 22 (4.50%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.89%) Pulumi
6 16 (3.27%) iPaaS
7 15 (3.07%) GCP
8 14 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (2.86%) GitHub
9 10 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.84%) OneDrive
10 9 (1.84%) PaaS
11 8 (1.64%) H2O.ai
11 8 (1.64%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.02%) Asana
12 5 (1.02%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.82%) Collibra
13 4 (0.82%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.82%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 40 (8.18%) Broadband
2 10 (2.04%) HTTP
3 9 (1.84%) SD-WAN
4 8 (1.64%) WAN
5 6 (1.23%) LAN
5 6 (1.23%) RTP
6 5 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.82%) Wireless
8 3 (0.61%) Multicast
9 2 (0.41%) 5G
9 2 (0.41%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.41%) Network Security
9 2 (0.41%) NGN
9 2 (0.41%) VPN
10 1 (0.20%) 4G
10 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.20%) Firewall
10 1 (0.20%) Intranet
10 1 (0.20%) MPLS
10 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.34%) Metadata
2 21 (4.29%) NoSQL
2 21 (4.29%) Power BI
2 21 (4.29%) Relational Database
3 20 (4.09%) RDBMS
4 9 (1.84%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.43%) Tableau
6 6 (1.23%) Data Mining
6 6 (1.23%) SAP BW
6 6 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.61%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.41%) Big Data
8 2 (0.41%) DB2
9 1 (0.20%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (5.52%) JIRA
2 19 (3.89%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.82%) ERwin
4 3 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.20%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.20%) Git
General
1 185 (37.83%) Finance
2 173 (35.38%) Social Skills
3 125 (25.56%) Marketing
4 84 (17.18%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (12.68%) Banking
6 57 (11.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (9.82%) Retail
8 42 (8.59%) Law
9 37 (7.57%) Legal
10 35 (7.16%) Influencing Skills
11 34 (6.95%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (6.13%) Financial Institution
13 24 (4.91%) Back Office
14 22 (4.50%) Public Sector
15 20 (4.09%) Manufacturing
16 17 (3.48%) Digital Economy
17 16 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
18 11 (2.25%) Automotive
19 10 (2.04%) Electronics
20 9 (1.84%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 137 (28.02%) Product Manager
2 70 (14.31%) Lead
3 62 (12.68%) Senior
4 39 (7.98%) Product Owner
5 36 (7.36%) Senior Manager
6 30 (6.13%) Senior Product Manager
7 19 (3.89%) Product Lead
8 18 (3.68%) Digital Product Manager
9 16 (3.27%) Change Manager
9 16 (3.27%) Developer
10 15 (3.07%) Consultant
11 14 (2.86%) Product Management Director
12 12 (2.45%) Data Manager
13 11 (2.25%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (2.25%) Development Engineer
13 11 (2.25%) Security Engineer
13 11 (2.25%) Software Engineer
14 10 (2.04%) Senior Development Engineer
14 10 (2.04%) Senior Software Development Engineer
14 10 (2.04%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.89%) Elastic Stack
1 19 (3.89%) OpenTelemetry
2 13 (2.66%) REST
3 9 (1.84%) YAML
4 8 (1.64%) Keras
4 8 (1.64%) PyTorch
4 8 (1.64%) TensorFlow
5 5 (1.02%) .NET
6 3 (0.61%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.41%) CSS
7 2 (0.41%) HTML
7 2 (0.41%) Next.js
8 1 (0.20%) EDI
8 1 (0.20%) Flask
8 1 (0.20%) React
8 1 (0.20%) RESTful
8 1 (0.20%) SOAP
8 1 (0.20%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.20%) XML
8 1 (0.20%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 104 (21.27%) Product Ownership
2 34 (6.95%) Onboarding
2 34 (6.95%) Self-Motivation
3 28 (5.73%) Management Information System
4 26 (5.32%) Social Media
5 22 (4.50%) Cloud Native
6 17 (3.48%) Marketing Technology
7 16 (3.27%) Over-the-Top Content
8 12 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.25%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.84%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.64%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.43%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.43%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (1.23%) IoT
14 5 (1.02%) Driving Licence
14 5 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 5 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.70%) Linux
2 19 (3.89%) Unix
3 6 (1.23%) Windows
4 2 (0.41%) zOS
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (53.78%) Roadmaps
2 220 (44.99%) Agile
3 131 (26.79%) Product Roadmap
4 104 (21.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 104 (21.27%) Product Strategy
4 104 (21.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 97 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
6 91 (18.61%) AI
6 91 (18.61%) Mentoring
7 87 (17.79%) Product Vision
8 77 (15.75%) Analytics
9 74 (15.13%) Decision-Making
10 68 (13.91%) User Experience
11 63 (12.88%) User Stories
12 60 (12.27%) Business Development
12 60 (12.27%) Coaching
13 57 (11.66%) Information Security
13 57 (11.66%) Project Management
14 55 (11.25%) Customer Experience
15 49 (10.02%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 43 (8.79%) Python
2 33 (6.75%) Java
3 28 (5.73%) SQL
4 24 (4.91%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.09%) Go
6 19 (3.89%) Bash
7 9 (1.84%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.82%) C#
9 2 (0.41%) Bicep
9 2 (0.41%) COBOL
9 2 (0.41%) JCL
9 2 (0.41%) PHP
9 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.20%) R
10 1 (0.20%) SHACL
10 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 89 (18.20%) Degree
2 36 (7.36%) Master's Degree
3 30 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (4.70%) Security Cleared
5 20 (4.09%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.86%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.43%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.43%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.43%) PMP
8 6 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.02%) MBA
10 4 (0.82%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.61%) CSPO
11 3 (0.61%) HNC
12 2 (0.41%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.41%) CBAP
12 2 (0.41%) CCNA
12 2 (0.41%) CISSP
12 2 (0.41%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.70%) QA
2 14 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.04%) NCSC
5 9 (1.84%) NIST
6 7 (1.43%) GDPR
7 5 (1.02%) IFRS
7 5 (1.02%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.02%) PMO
7 5 (1.02%) SLA
8 2 (0.41%) COREP
8 2 (0.41%) FINREP
8 2 (0.41%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.41%) SEPA
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) PSD2
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (4.50%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) RACF
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (5.11%) Terraform
2 22 (4.50%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.89%) Ansible
3 19 (3.89%) Argo
3 19 (3.89%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.89%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 49 (10.02%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.16%) Google
3 24 (4.91%) Adobe
4 14 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 9 (1.84%) Oracle
6 8 (1.64%) Databricks
6 8 (1.64%) Dell
6 8 (1.64%) NVIDIA
6 8 (1.64%) SAP
7 6 (1.23%) Foundry
8 4 (0.82%) Sage
8 4 (0.82%) Toshiba
8 4 (0.82%) YouTube
9 3 (0.61%) Apple
9 3 (0.61%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.61%) Cisco
9 3 (0.61%) CQG
9 3 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.61%) Reuters
9 3 (0.61%) Tenable